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The skin cure fad threatening Myanmar's elephants
Published Sun, Jan 22, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Mount Kyaikhteeyoe, Myanmar
UNDER the shadow of Myanmar's famed "Golden Rock" punters haggle for the latest traditional medicine cure - slices of skin from the country's fast disappearing wild elephants sold for a few dollars a square inch.
A set of stairs winds behind one of the Buddhist country's most holy sites to a maze of shops openly selling everything from pieces of ivory and tiger's teeth to vials of bear oil.
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